MP1: Media beat up...no IMO Aunty has missed the point!
MP2: It is not whether the ATsB SR is good, bad, a total WOFTAM or (ironically) if it would have made any difference to the tragic outcome of the Aunty Chopper accident
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Here's a quote from the tail end of my post #53:
Quote:
16. The Coroner supports CASR draft regulations point 61 and 133 becoming final.
17. That beacons, both visual and radio, be placed on prominent and appropriate high points along routes commonly utilised by aero-medical retrieval teams, including Cape Hillsborough.
18. The Coroner supports the ATSB recommendations 20030213,and promulgation of information to pilots; 20040052, assessment of safety benefits of requiring a standby altitude indicator with independent power source in single pilot night VFR; 20040053, assessment of safety benefits of requiring an autopilot or stabilisation augmentation system in single pilot VFR; and R20050002, review operator classification and minimum safety standards for helicopter EMS operations.
Starting to join the dots??
More to follow..Sarcs (K2)
Addendum:
CASA SRs for AO-2011-102:
AO-2011-102-SI-02 ,
AO-2011-102-SI-03
CASA SRs for
air200304282:
R20040053,
R20050002,
R20010195,
R20030213.
Note: With the courage of their convictions and experience, you will note that the bureau of old issued R20030213 within a month of the accident.. compare that to ATSBeaker...27 months was it??
So if the original SR's from 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 (as listed above) were more appropriately addressed (instead of ozfuscated
) then the new ATsB SR issued for the ABC chopper crash wouldn't have been necessary and maybe (big maybe
) this accident may not have occurred...why you ask? Well because the risk of spatial disorientation would hopefully have been highlighted and learnt from, leading to a risk mitigator like for example better SOPs from the operator; or better currency rules from the operator; or incorporated recurrency training for similar scenarios...the list goes on.
Even if the accident still occurred we would still be a decade ahead and looking at
other risk mitigators..
